New animal hospital planned and care will include exotic species

The new hospital will have parking, a large waiting room and reception area, six consulting rooms, spacious and comfortable accommodation for cats and dogs and even a ward dedicated to exotic species.

Martin added: “One of our vets recently visited a Koi carp in his pond and we may not have inpatient facilities for fish at the new hospital ... but we will have hospital facilities for almost everything else.”

In addition to offices and accommodation for night staff, the new hospital will feature a suite of five operating theatres including high sterility theatres designed for advanced procedures.

Martin added: “We will have a dental suite specifically designed for advanced veterinary dentistry and a high dependency unit for the management of the most critically ill patients.

“One of the facilities we are most excited about will be the diagnostics suite which will include ultrasound and X-ray as well as a 64-slice CT scanner, one of only a very few veterinary CT scanners of this specification in the country.

“The hospital will deal with the long-neglected site on Somerset Road. Derelict for decades, the site had become dangerous and overgrown with fly-tipping and asbestos littering it. We will sympathetically breathe new life into the area.”